TrumpWorld figures have spent months recruiting Big Lie conspiracy theorists to seek local election offices ahead of the next presidential race after failing to overturn Donald Trump's defeat in 2020. A failed effort in New Mexico this month offered a preview of what is likely to come in local election offices run by Trump loyalists.
Trump has spent months campaigning to install loyal supporters in state-level offices to oversee upcoming elections, and now his allies are increasingly focused on taking over local offices as well. Former Trump campaign manager and White House strategist Steve Bannon, one of the loudest voices backing the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the Capitol riot, has dubbed this the "precinct strategy," urging his podcast audience to "take this back village by village … precinct by precinct."
